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First Sit-In
Picture SourceFour black students from North Carolina A&T College request service at a lunch counter at Woolworth in Greensboro. After being refused service, they stayed until the lunch counter closed that evening. -
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Sit-Ins Occur in the United States
Woolworth lost $200,000 worth of business and twenty percent of expected sales. Stores in Atlanta began integrating. The original sit-in sparked sit-ins all across the country including sit-ins at Woolworth stores in Charlotte, Raleigh, and Winston-Salem. Forty-one black students were arrested for protesting. Several of the students who participated in the sit-ins had food thrown on them. One protester had his coat set on fire by a white man, the white man was arrested. -
More Students Join
Picture SourceBy the second day there were twenty-four students particpating in the sit-in. -
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Fifty-four Sit-Ins
Picture Source There were fifty-four sit-ins across the United States. They occurred in fifteen cities, and in nine different states. -
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Other Lunch Counter Integrated
By the end of February, the lunch counter at S.H. Kress (another department store in Greensboro) had been integrated. -
Original Lunch Counter Integrated
[Picture Source](https://://www.reuther.wayne.edu/node/7621)The lunch counter where the original sit-in took place was integrated.
